how to tell if a server boots from SAN

I have a Fedora server that I believe boots from a SAN. However how can I tell for sure if this is the case from the server itself. how would I go about doing this? here is some information about the drives.

I am interested to know where the /boot is located. That is where it boots from, at least the second stage of its booting. The first stage always takes place from the first 570 or sectors of the local drive

If you look carefully, your physical volume is based entirely on your /dev/sda2, which is your SCSI drive, and is local to your computer. Your volume group is based entirely on this physical volume, nothing else.

So your system is getting booted from /dev/sda1, which is local to your system and is the correct way to do it. We don't recommend putting /boot even on the LVM. It is a bad practice but still very senior admins do it.

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For Fedora, I believe you should be using PXE and then Kickstart mechanism. This part is different for all OSs. Redhat family goes by kickstart which is very powerful mechanism for doing a custom install.

I hope that makes sense. You can see at your work, what device paths are the SANs using. What kind of SAN do you have? If you find it is different than what I showed, please post it here too

Last, booting NEVER happens at SAN. Your system is configured right. Ideally it should be a primary partition on the local drive and this is exactly what your system has. Stage 1 booting always happens at the MBR (master boot record) of your drive. Boot partition should ideally be separate from root partition as you have.

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